2023-11-05 13:02:44
Iran: “US strikes hard without ceasefire”
Iran’s defense minister has warned that the United States will be “hit hard” if there is no ceasefire in Gaza. The semi-official news agency Tasnim reported this on its Telegram account. “Our advice to the Americans is to end the war immediately and enforce a ceasefire, otherwise they will be hit hard,” said Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani.
2023-11-05 12:33:07
Abu Mazen: “Ten thousand Palestinians killed, how can we remain silent?”
“How can we remain silent about the killing of 10,000 Palestinians, including 4,000 children, tens of thousands injured and the destruction of tens of thousands of housing units, infrastructure, hospitals, reception centers and water tanks?” President Abu Mazen said this at the meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “What is happening in the West Bank and Jerusalem is no less terrible in terms of killings and attacks on land, people and holy places by the occupying forces and terrorist settlers who are committing crimes of ethnic cleansing, racial discrimination, etc. and monetary piracy.”
Nov 5, 2023 12:23:03 p.m
Abu Mazen to Blinken: “Stop the war immediately”
Palestinian President Abu Mazen, in his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, called for “the immediate cessation of the devastating war and the acceleration of the delivery of humanitarian aid, including medicine, food, water, electricity and fuel, to Gaza.” “We meet again in extremely difficult circumstances,” he added, and there are no words to describe the war of genocide and destruction that our Palestinian people in Gaza are being subjected to by the Israeli war machine without regard to the rules of international law” .
Nov 5, 2023 12:22:03 p.m
Israeli army: Hamas rocket launchers near swimming pool and children’s park
The Israeli army said it discovered “a Hamas rocket launch site near a children’s pool, as well as shooting pits and rocket launchers in an old children’s playground” during the fighting in Gaza. “This – said the spokesman – is further evidence that Hamas deliberately uses civilian structures and civilians themselves, including children, as human shields for its operations.”
2023-11-05 10:41:46
West Bank, meeting with Blinken Abu Mazen
The meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Palestinian President Abu Mazen began in Ramallah in the West Bank. Haaretz reports it. It is the first meeting between the two since the conflict between Israel and Gaza.
2023-11-05 10:23:19
Israel releases images of the October 7 Hamas massacre
On the recommendation of Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, Israel is working to disseminate footage of the massacres carried out by Hamas on October 7 in parliaments and press offices around the world. The governments of the US, Germany, the UK and Japan have already seen the videos, which were first shown to journalists in Israel and later in the Knesset. “The monsters of Hamas have documented their atrocities against our civilians with inhumane boasts,” Cohen said. “We will tell the whole world by showing films about the incredible cruelty of the bloodthirsty terrorists who killed entire families and celebrated their violence.”
2023-11-05 09:58:24
Netanyahu suspends “nuclear bomb” minister
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suspended Minister Amihai Eliyahu from government meetings indefinitely after he described the use of the atomic bomb in Gaza as an “option.” The announcement comes from the Prime Minister’s Office. After the statements, Minister Eliyahu said he wanted to use “a metaphor.”
Hamas has set up a television screen outside Gaza’s Shifa Hospital to show civilians videos of its fighting against the Israeli army in the north of the Gaza Strip.
In the footage, Hamas terrorists shoot at the Israeli soldiers with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles
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11/5/2023 9:47:55 AM
Minister Israel mentions the atomic bomb and then backtracks
An Israeli minister today raised the possibility of dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza. However, he later retracted his words after Benjamin Netanyahu reacted sharply to them. In an interview, Minister of Jewish Tradition Amichai Eliahu said that a nuclear bomb on Gaza “would be one of the possibilities” even if the lives of the 240 Israeli hostages were at stake, because “wars have a price.”
“Eliahu’s words are outrageous and do not correspond to reality,” Netanyahu responded. “Our armed forces operate on the basis of international law so as not to harm the innocent.” Eliahu then remarked: “It was just a metaphor.”
11/5/2023 8:40:02 AM
Hamas militants attack the Israeli army in the south of the Gaza Strip
Hamas militants attacked Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip. The Jerusalem Post reports, citing the Israeli Defense Forces: In the early hours of today, Hamas militiamen fired anti-tank missiles against Israeli troops in the south of the Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel. The Israeli army returned fire.
2023-11-05 07:47:13
Two Palestinians were killed in clashes in the West Bank
Two Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army in heavy clashes in Abu Dis in the West Bank. This was reported by the Wafa agency, according to which there were also six injured, two of whom were in serious condition.
2023-11-05 07:45:51
Israel: “Over 2,500 Hamas terror targets hit in Gaza Strip”
“Over 2,500 terrorist targets have been hit in the Gaza Strip” since operations began in Gaza through land, sea and air strikes. The military spokesman said soldiers continued “the elimination of terrorists through close combat and air strikes on Hamas infrastructure, weapons depots, observation posts and command and control centers in the Gaza Strip.”
2023-11-05 01:06:54
Attack on refugee camp in Gaza. “At least 51 dead”
At least 51 people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli army attack on the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. This is reported by the Palestinian news agency Wafa – as the website Ynet reports. The attack occurred on the night of Saturday to Sunday.
2023-11-05 00:24:23
Blinken will meet with Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen in Ramallah today
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) in Ramallah today: this is the US diplomatic chief’s first trip to the West Bank since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas. A Palestinian official told the Times of Israel. In recent days, Blinken told a congressional hearing: “At some point it would make most sense for an effective and revitalized Palestinian Authority to assume leadership and ultimate responsibility for the security of Gaza.” These comments were the first time that The Biden administration publicly expressed its desire for the Palestinian Authority to return to the Gaza Strip after privately raising the idea with regional partners during the Israel-Hamas war.
11/5/2023 12:06:10 AM
Trump: “With me the Hamas attacks wouldn’t have happened”
Donald Trump claims that if he had been in the White House, “the Hamas attacks against Israel would never have happened.” “I broke Iran,” the tycoon attacked on stage at the Freedom Summit, the annual meeting of Florida Republicans, and claimed to have “solved the problem of terrorism” when he was president.
He arrives in Amman, the capital of Jordan, and talks about the future of Gaza, when the Hamas terrorist militia members will no longer be there in command. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks with his counterparts from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates as well as the Jordanians and Qatar about the post-war period, which is crucial by welcoming the Hamas leadership in Doha to mediate the case hostages. It describes a transition period in which the Gaza Strip will be occupied by a multinational Arab force, possibly under the auspices of the United Nations, and then ruled by a leadership that could be that of a “revived” Palestinian Authority at the head of the West Bank. A project that is currently not officially met with much enthusiasm. The Arabs of the moderate front, which already has diplomatic relations with Israel such as Egypt and Jordan (even if the latter withdrew its ambassador due to the Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip) or is negotiating with them to put an end to the dispute ( (Saudi Arabia ) everyone indiscriminately appeals to Blinken for an “immediate ceasefire”. In practice, for the end of the Israeli war. To lay down their weapons and stop the bombing and ground actions. A request to which Blinken clearly answers “no” and which instead turns against the formula of “humanitarian pauses,” temporary ceasefires aimed at channeling and distributing aid to the civilian population.
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An idea presented to Netanyahu the day before, but which he firmly rejected, declaring that the Israeli army’s offensive would continue “at full capacity.” The difference that all observers note is that at the end of the visit in Tel Aviv, Blinken spoke alone to journalists and the meeting with the Israeli prime minister took place behind closed doors and the two were not photographed together at a press conference. Yesterday, however, at the end of the talks, Biden’s head of diplomacy between the two foreign ministers of Egypt, Sameh Shoukry, and Jordan, Ayman Safadi, appeared before journalists and cameras. A sign of closeness that was encouraged by Blinken’s repeated calls for Israel not to bomb places inhabited by civilians, to loosen control over the Gaza Strip and to allow the supply of food and water, especially fuel to run hospitals.
Blinken is careful to maintain his middle line while emphasizing his strong support for his key Middle East ally, Israel. “We believe,” he explains, “that a ceasefire now would simply result in Hamas remaining in place in Gaza and being able to reorganize, regroup and repeat what they have done on October 7th.”
This is not only not possible for America, but also impossible in the face of a future for Gaza and the Palestinians that envisages something very different: a government that is not made up of terrorists and a path that leads to peace based on these principles.” two states and two peoples.” Israel has the right to defend itself, Blinken said, and it must be “enabled to achieve its goal of defeating Hamas.” In this sense, US support for Israel’s self-defense is an “unyielding” position.
THEY SUFFER
His Arab interlocutors unanimously replied that the right to self-defense cannot justify the cruelty of the conflict and the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population. “This is no longer self-defense,” says the Egyptian Shukri, and the deplorable killings in Gaza cannot be justified. Collective punishment, Israeli attacks on innocent civilians and facilities, hospitals, doctors and attempts to force Palestinians to leave their country cannot in any way constitute self-defense.” His Jordanian colleague Safadi agrees. “Israel is committing war crimes, the entire region is sinking into a sea of hate that will shape generations to come.” Blinken’s proposals for post-Hamas in Gaza are discussed in secret rooms, but Shoukry even rejects the discussion in public. “What will happen next? How can we even start talking about it, we don’t have all the variables for it, now the priorities are different.” One of the leaders of Hamas, Osama Hamdan, speaks from Beirut. “Blink,” he says told journalists, “should stop the aggression and not develop ideas that cannot be put into action.” After the stopover in Amman and a meeting with the Jordanian King Abdullah II, the foreign minister will fly to Turkey to meet Erdogan .
Marco Ventura